Claude Bloch

Claude Bloch ( born March 18, 1923 in Paris, † December 29, 1971 ) was a French theoretical physicist.

Bloch studied from 1942 in Paris at the elite École polytechnique high ( completion 1946) and belonged then to the Corps des Mines. 1948 to 1951 he was at the Niels Bohr Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen and 1952-1953 at Caltech in California. He then worked at the Commissariat à l' énergie Atomique (CEA ), with whom he worked since 1946, mainly on the theory of nuclear reactors. He was ( founded as the Service de Physique théorique ) 1959 Head of the Department of Mathematics and 1963 the Department of Theoretical Physics and since 1971 the Department of Physics at the Research Centre in Saclay. He died at the age of 48 of a heart attack.

Bloch made ​​significant contributions to nuclear physics and statistical mechanics. With Roger Balian, he worked on asymptotic expansions ( Balian posthumously published in 1974 ) and in the 1960s on many-body theory.

He received the Prix Henri Poincaré and 1972 the Prix Jean Ricard.

His doctoral counts M. L. Mehta.